Policy paper

Chemicals and pesticides: provisional framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on chemicals and pesticide policies and regulation.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 3 February 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Chemicals and pesticides provisional common framework

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3056-6, CP 614

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on regulating chemicals and pesticides. This includes:

• Biocidal Products (BPR)
• Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP)
• detergents
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Plant Protection Products (PPP)
• Prior Informed Consent (PIC)
• mercury
• United Kingdom Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (UK REACH)
• relevant international conventions (Stockholm, Rotterdam, Basel and Minamata)
• the United Nations Global Harmonised System (for classifying and communicating the hazardous properties of chemicals)
• the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

The provisional Common Framework has received ministerial approval from all 4 governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

Published 3 February 2022